Rand Paul's campaign decided to livestream a presidential candidate's typical day of Iowa campaigning Tuesday, in all its glorious monotony.

Paul was not the most natural candidate for the Truman Show treatment; earlier this year, he told The Post's David Weigel that the briefly popular livestream app Meerkat might ruin the last vestiges of reality.

"If we know that every interaction with every voter is going to be filmed, it’ll mean that you have plastic candidates saying nothing," he said then. "No response, no nodding of the head, because you know everything will be filmed."

On Tuesday, his take appeared to have shifted. Our colleague Ben Terris spent his day watching Paul's livestream: Paul slouching over a breakfast table; joyriding to a Metallica, Duffy and Jet soundtrack; Paul at the iconic Field of Dreams.

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There were high-minded musings:

11:22 am: Back in the car, Paul says to no one in particular (or perhaps to the roughly 500 souls watching his livestream at the moment) that his favorite philosopher is Albert Camus. His favorite story is the one about Sisyphus, condemned to push a rock up a hill for eternity.

He had even tougher words to describe his livestream struggle in a clip his campaign tweeted out just before the Democratic debate began Tuesday night. In response to one of Google's most-asked questions -- are you still running for president? -- he had this joking reply:

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"I wouldn’t be doing this dumbass livestreaming if I weren’t," he said. "So yes, I still am running for president, so get over it."

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Then he seemed to rethink his take. "This is live -- we can't edit this, right?" he asked.